Library Student Journal is a peer-reviewed student publication of the University at Buffalo, School of Informatics and Department of Library and Information Studies. This is a open access journal and the editorial team introduces their goal as follows:“Library Student Journal (LSJ) seeks to publish the best student papers from Library and Information Science (LIS) students worldwide and to serve as a forum for discussion of LIS education and training, career paths and future trends.”

There are thousands websites about information literacy, however, ACRL Information Literacy site seems very interesting to me because it offers useful resources for both people who are new in information literacy and those who are expert in this area.

Jakob Nielsen has discussed the issue of "weblog usability" in a succinct and efficient way. In his website he has a webpage “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes” in which he identifies the following points as top ten mistakes that bloggers should avoid to enhance the usability of their weblogs. In terms of Nielsen’s webpage these mistakes are:

The Informed Web Searcher: Advanced Information Strategies is a workshop which is run by InfusionS. I am not able to attend the workshop but I’ll write about it here because its theme is directly related to my research area. The workshop would be useful for people who want to learn more about searching the web and related skills.Based on their website the workshop has been designed to achieve the following goals:

“developing advanced information retrieval skills applicable across the range of information services; comparing and contrasting variety of search engines, tools and techniques; searching for specific types of information , and using specialised search engines; what is the Deep Web, and strategies for accessing information; techniques for validating information on the Internet, detecting misinformation, spoofs etc; tracking down pages that have disappeared; latest developments in search engines, tools and techniques; awareness of relevant legal and ethical issues."

A brand new international and peer-reviewed journal in the LIS area has been launched on the web recently. The journal which is called “The Journal of Web Librarianship” and is introduced on its website as follows:

“The Journal of Web Librarianship publishes material related to all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals in the Web environment. The Journal of Web Librarianship strives to find a balance between original, scholarly research, and practical communications about relevant topics in web librarianship.”

Dr Yazdan Mansourian is a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He received his PhD in Information Science from The University of Sheffield (2003 to 2006). The title of his thesis was "Information Visibility on the Web and Conceptions of Success and Failure in Web Searching". Yazdan has a BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering (1991-1995) from Guilan University and an MA degree in LIS from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (1998-2001). During January 2007 to June 2017 he was faculty member at Kharazmi University (Tehran, Iran). From 2011 to 2016 he was Director of the Central Library at Kharazmi University and was also Head of the LIS Department during that time.